However, climate campaigners have been highly critical. Environmental pressure group Uplift desrcibed Trump’s demand for more drilling as “pure fantasy”.<\/p>\n
Uplift’s executive director Tessa Khan, said: “New drilling won’t cut bills and, after 50 years of extraction, the basin is fast running out of gas \u2013 that’s geology not a political choice. <\/p>\n
“Trump’s knowledge of the North Sea is limited to his view from his golf course, so let’s not listen to him when it comes to how we power our country.”<\/p>\n
This view was supported by many of the protestors in Aberdeenshire who staged a demonstration outside the extensive police cordon around Mr Trump’s Menie estate.<\/p>\n
They had complaints about the cost of security for the visit. And they criticised US policy on topics ranging from abortion to immigration. <\/p>\n
Campiagner Esme Houston from Aberdeen said: “We’re here to tell Trump to leave, bluntly. We’re not very happy with his persence in our city and in our country.<\/p>\n
Another protester, Hannah, said: “It’s important to stand up for what we, as Scotland, believe in. What he’s done to this community with his golf course is unacceptable.”<\/p>\n
“There’s issues with the environment. The community was promised things that weren’t delivered. People were forced from their homes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, climate campaigners have been highly critical. Environmental pressure group Uplift desrcibed Trump’s demand for more drilling as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-29442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}